NAVTEQ is used by Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and a whole ton of GPS navigation systems. (Our NAVTEQ onboard GPS in the Australian hire car we had tried to dump us down a ravine in the bush, but that's a whole other story entitled My NAVTEQ Thinks I'm Dead.)

Mixed reactions over at those GameDev forums, ranging from NAVTEQ-data-is-8-years-old, to wahay-more-terrorists, to debates on whether a simulation is a game or not...

Either way, this is a welcome step further towards being able to play with real world data, and play in 3D on digitally-rendered real world terrain. Completely delightful.